Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twentieth Evening, sentence 15
Are they dead?' she asked of my golden crescent; 'Are they dead?' she cried to my full disc.
Who acts: storms, wife · What happens: be, ask, cry · To what, where: full disc · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twentieth Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storms, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dead | cop |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 dead | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 crescent | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 crescent | nmod:poss |
| 10 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crescent | amod |
| 11 | crescent | crescent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 dead | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 dead | punct |
| 14 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dead | cop |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 dead | nsubj |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 dead | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 dead | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 cried | nsubj |
| 20 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 disc | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 disc | nmod:poss |
| 23 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 disc | amod |
| 24 | disc | disc | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | storms = storm | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | wife | of my golden crescent | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of crescent=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | storms = storm | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | past | wife | my full disc | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to disc=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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